Rajneesh Sayings and Quotes

Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous old Rajneesh quotes, Rajneesh sayings, and Rajneesh proverbs, collected over the years from a variety of sources.'

Try to force celibacy upon yourself and your dreams will become sexual, they will have a quality of sexuality. Rajneesh
Existence is a mystery , and one should accept it as a mystery and not pretend to have any explanation . Rajneesh
There is great difference between trust and belief. Trust is personal, Belief is social. Rajneesh
So what you are doing, be aware, observe it, and then go on meditating. Soon you will begin to feel the change. Now there is no possessiveness in relationship. By and by, possessiveness disappears. And when possessiveness is not there, relationship has a beauty of its own. When possessiveness is there, everything becomes dirty, ugly, inhuman. Rajneesh
Possessiveness destroys love. And they should not be possessed, because that again destroys your love. Rajneesh
Attachment is the root cause of all misery. Possessiveness is nourishment for the ego. Rajneesh
To transform breakdowns into breakthroughs is the whole function of a master. Rajneesh
Discover yourself, otherwise you have to depend on other people's opinions who don't know themselves. Rajneesh
Mind cannot think without duality. Duality is the way of thinking. In silence, all dualities disappear. Rajneesh
All duality is a mind creation, all duality is created by the clinging and attached mind. When there is no attachment there is no duality. Rajneesh
Transcendence means going beyond duality. Attachment means remaining within duality. Rajneesh
The mind always functions in an eccentric way, the mind is always an idiot. The really intelligent person has no mind. Intelligence arises out of no-mind, idiocy out of the mind. Mind is idiotic, no-mind is wise. No-mind is wisdom, intelligence. Mind depends on knowledge, on methods, on money, on experience, on this and that. Mind always needs props, it needs supports, it cannot exist on its own. On its own, it flops. Rajneesh
There is no other greater ecstasy, no other greater blissfulness, than to know who you are. To know the inner space is to know all. It is unlimited silence but not dead, it is alive with songs of its own, with dances of its own. Rajneesh
Freedom is a ladder: one side of the ladder reaches hell, the other side touches heaven. It is the same ladder; the choice is yours. Rajneesh
The moment a child is born, the mother is also born. She never existed before. The woman existed, but the mother, never. A mother is something absolutely new. Rajneesh
The moment a child is born, the mother is also born. She never existed before. The woman existed, but the mother, never. A mother is something absolutely new. Rajneesh
All of the religions are looking after the poor. At least leave me alone to look after the rich. I am the rich man's guru. Rajneesh
In this life, your so-called ordinary life, you must be rooted; and in your inner space, in the spiritual life, you must be weightless and flying and flowing, floating. Rajneesh
Let sannyas be the turning point. That's what sannyas is all about: a return journey. One starts moving inwards rather than moving outwards. Rajneesh
The fruit does not come from the outside, the fruit is created within you. Whatever you do, you develop receptivity for it inside yourself. Someone who wants love should give his love. Someone who wants bliss should start sharing his bliss. Someone who wants flowers to shower in his home should shower flowers in other people's homes. There is no other way. So compassion is an emotion that each person has to develop in order to enter into meditation. Rajneesh
God cannot be found outside you, because there is no God who can ever be outside you. God is the ultimate fragrance of your consciousness. When your consciousness opens like a lotus, the fragrance that is released is God - better to call it godliness. Rajneesh
Worship the Silent Space in you. Rajneesh
Attachment is the shadow of the ego. Attachments are immediately created wherever you see 'I am'. Rajneesh
Attachment is the food for the mind to continue. Non-attached witnessing is the way to stop it without any effort to stop it. And when you start enjoying those blissful moments, your capacity to retain them for longer periods arises. Rajneesh
Remember: no attachment should grow, no clinging should grow. They are all against your independence, your freedom, your individuality. Rajneesh
The authentic pagan has no need of religion because, whatever religion can provide, he already has it. Rajneesh
The moment you start seeing life as non-serious, a playfulness, all the burden on your heart disappears. All the fear of death, of life, of love - everything disappears. Rajneesh
Lovers never surrender to each other, lovers simply surrender to love. Rajneesh
A conditional love is nothing but an infatuation, sexuality. Unconditional is the only way love can be. Wherever a condition comes in, love disappears. It cannot live in bondage, and a condition gives it an imprisonment. Love can only live like the vast sky. Love knows no boundaries. Rajneesh
Nobody else can destroy you except you; nobody else can save you except you. You are the Judas and you are the Jesus. Rajneesh

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